On Nov 8, 11:17 am, "Alistair Wright"
wrote:
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oups.com... Heres a report from WABC that apparently aired on Good Morning America
this morning:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...cal&id=5747236

appears the airlines are using minimum fuel as much as possible to
reduce fuel burns and costs. Seems to me that some good glider
experience could become a hiring requirement at the majors if they
keep this up.

You're thinking of the 'Gimli Glider' then? That was just good old
fashioned miscalculation, but the fact that the first officer was an in
practice glider pilot saved a lot of lives that day.

Alistair Wright
Scotland

No im saying that if they keep it up its only a matter of time before
they genuinely run one out of gas. from what i have found so far, i
can only find one genuine run out of gas previously, by a south
american airline headed to JFK. They landed out and managed to fly
the nearly new (under 100 hrs) 737 out at a later date. Others are of
course Gimli, and the Air Transat (I think) flight that deadsticked
into the Azores after a bad connection leaked out a bunch of gas, and
there was one other fuel starvation that was because of a hijacking.